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Why do you weep silently, O angry girl, repeatedly brushing away your tears with the tip of your fingernail? You will weep much louder, crying aloud, / when, after your pique has gone to an extreme through the instigating words of a slanderer, / your dearest lover, despondent about reconciliation, will turn indifferent!